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1) Stepfamilies
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Discusses the changes involved in becoming part of a stepfamily and ways to deal with the new situation.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 5
Language
English
Description
Publisher Anno: Now it's summertime, and eleven-year-old Lydia is dancing at the bus stop, waiting for big sister Batty to get home from college. This is a very important dance and a very important wait because the two youngest sisters are about to arrive home to find out that the Penderwicks will all be returning to Arundel this summer, the place where it all began. And better still is the occasion: a good old-fashioned, homemade-by-Penderwicks wedding....
3) Stranded
Author
Series
Stranded. Original series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
Author
Series
Shipwreck Island volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sarah is not happy about her father remarrying and dealing with her new stepmother and siblings. The decision was made to take them on a vacation in order for everyone to get to know each other.
Author
Series
Magic animal rescue volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Maggie finds it harder each day to get along with her stepmother and stepsiblings, but a talking fish promises to grant a wish if she will free him.
Author
Series
Book buddies volume 1
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Ivy was Anne the librarian’s doll when she was a young girl. But now she has moved to Anne’s library to be its newest Book Buddy—a toy that can be checked out just like a book. Ivy isn’t sure she wants to be borrowed, though. She’d rather go back to just being Anne’s favorite toy. Fern, a child who visits the library with her stepfamily, also wishes things could go back to the way they were, when Fern had her dad...
9) Trapped
Author
Series
Shipwreck Island volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's up to Sarah Robinson to save her shipwrecked family from a time-traveling "curator" of souls and a treasure-hunting criminal in Book 3 of the Shipwreck Island series"--
10) Dreambuilders
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Minna is a young girl discovering her ability to create and control other people's dreams. She's determined to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson, but when she goes too far one night, Jenny can no longer wake up and Minna must enter the dream herself and face down the nightmare she created.
11) Wedgie & Gizmo
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Marissa Cortez-Wilson is happily married to reality TV star Wilbur Wilson, and is stepmother to his two children, Cecil and Rebecca, along with their newborn baby. What her family doesn't know is that Marissa is a retired secret agent, and when The Timekeeper--a dastardly villain threatening Armageddon--strikes, Marissa is called back into action. With the fate of all mankind at stake, Marissa is forced to seek the help of her stepchildren, and, with...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Wedgie LOVES the new micro-pig next door. And she LOVES him! They both like to go for walks and roll in smelly things. They are going to be in the school pet parade together. They are best friends. But Gizmo knows the truth. The pig is Wedgie?s new sidekick. Super Wedgie and the Toof have teamed up to stop Gizmo from taking over the world. But they will not win! Gizmo is an evil genius. He is smarter than most comic book villains....
14) Control freaks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: What if Louis Sachar’s Wayside School were a little less wacky – but just as funny – and centered on a young Black boy who IS going to be the great inventor of all time, and set in the top STEM middle school in the country, oh and it was written by someone who worked for years in independent schools, and it also tackles what it’s like to live in a blended family and to stand up to a parent who’s not being so great and...
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Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Jamie Lee just wants to be normal but his ADHD isn't making it easy. If only he could control his butterfly mind he'd have friends, be able to keep out of trouble and he could live with his mom, not be sent to stay with his dad. Elin Watts just wants to be perfect. If she could be the best student and daughter possible, then maybe her dad would leave his new family and come back to live with Elin and her mom, happily ever after....
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, unhappy with her newly-blended family, twelve-year-old Bea agrees to accompany Pidge, her grandmother, to Atchison, Kansas, where Pidge believes her long-lost sister, Amelia Earhart, will meet them. Includes historical notes, a brief biography, quotations from the Earharts, and resources for educators.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
19) Once upon a toad
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother goes on a NASA mission, Cat Starr is sent to live with her father, stepsister Olivia, and younger brother Geoffrey, but interference by her inept fairy godmother causes toads to appear when Cat speaks and gems to fall from Olivia's mouth, bringing one to the attention of jewel thieves and the other to a secret government laboratory.
20) The nixie's song
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem-- the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety-- and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging...
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